Mobile Application Programing: AndroidIntroduction

My InterestsComputer Graphics

CTO Pixio Software

Wrote MobileFinder for the iOS 1.4 jailbroken SDK

Co-founded the UofU iPhone Group in 2007

Lived in Brazil and speak Brazilian Portuguese

Send balloons to 100,000 feet and take pictures

Read US revolutionary biographies, fantasy, and sci-fi

Course Website

http://www.eng.utah.edu/~cs5957

Cheating PolicyCheating in the context of this course is generally, but not limited to, sharing and copying of code from other students or the Internet. Any code making up your solution should be written and understood by you. Small quantities of template code will at times be provided by the instructor. You can use this code in submissions but should still be able to fully explain the function of all template code you use. Refer to but do not copy code from the examples given in class.

Nokia N8 Palm Pre 2 iPhone 4

Blackberry Torch Nexus One Samsung Focus

Symbian^3 WebOS iOS

Blackberry OS Android Windows Phone 7

C++/Java/WRT HTML5/JavaScript/CSS Objective-C

Java Java .NET (C#)

Symbian^3 SDK Mojo SDK iOS SDK

Blackberry JDE Android JDE .NET Framework

Symbian^3 SDK Mojo SDK iOS SDK

Blackberry JDE Android JDE .NET Framework

Why Android?Number of new Android-compatible devices dwarfs other platforms in the smartphone market

Companies looking to build mobile applications typically focus on iOS and Android first, and other platforms later

Android’s use of Java allows for development using modern OOP in a managed memory environment

The Android NDK allows use of C/C++ codebases

Why Not Android?Small percentage of Android device owners actually purchase software from the various markets

Fragmentation in the hardware and software make development for many devices more difficult than iOS

Companies overwhelmingly prefer to target iOS platforms before they target Android

Hardware running Android arguably inferior to that of other companies, mostly due to price of units

ActivitiesApps are composed of activities

Activities are self-contained tasks made up of one screen-full of information

Activities start one another and are destroyed commonly

Apps can use activities belonging to another app

Much more to come...